Prophetic Conference 2016 (Friday PM) - Pastor Danny Bonilla (May 27, 2016) | Life Bible Church

back to your seats. We're going to go to the

word of the Lord. What a great moment in God

to hear God speak to some people about their

future. Can you give the Lord another hand? He's

awesome. Should we bring this down here? Oh,

you want it up? Okay. Hallelujah. You know, it's

wonderful to be able to have men of God that

are And so for those of you that have been here

a while and walked with me and Life Bible, you

know Pastor Bob and you know Pastor Danny, that

they operate not just in the prophetic, but that

there is a prophet mantle that rests over the

years. And you can tell. I had no idea how accurate

those words are. Amazing. God bless you. Let's

welcome Pastor Danny as he comes and teaches

us tonight. Come on, give him a big hand. Welcome

the man of God. Thank you. Love you. Praise God.

Praise the Lord. What an awesome honor to be

back. Amen. Thank you for having me back and

I bring you greetings from my dear wife. who

is home. She could not make this trip as well.

I was hoping that she would be with me, but through

the trips that we've made, she grew ill from

her body, and we felt best for her to get some

rest. So I didn't book her flight so she could

come here. I wanted her to rest for the last

few trips, and it's been so. She's recovering

well, sends her love this way, and just recently

had a great miracle. And we could tell she was

depleted. Our back was giving her problems. And

as we entered into this time of her being still

and resting, she got hit with a bell palsy. For

some of you who might know what that is, it's

a paralysis of the face where just your face

gets contorted. It can last six months. It could

last even more than that. And it takes a while

to heal. Well, the other day we anointed her

and she felt... very strong to accompany me on

one trip. And when we got to the city, the pastor

who was there told me about this story about

an anointing oil that came from a Bible that

just started literally dripping oil. It's one

of those marks and signs that we can't explain,

but who happened? The supernatural happens. And

so they... picked the oil up, they put it in

a bowl, it dripped into a bowl, and it was enough

to fill enough flasks of oil. And when we got

there with my wife, we were able to anoint her.

I personally anointed her with that oil. And

as I swiped my hand over her eye, which was very

twisted and could not close and drippy for almost

two weeks already, and then to her mouth that

was contorted, as I went down her face, I saw

her healed right before my eyes. Her face come

into place. The elders were watching. All the

pastor there was watching. And we just were amazed

at the Holy Spirit healing. He could do that

without the oil, but sometimes he just pleases

to do things the way he wants to. And we just

prayed and used that oil. Nathan, I sent you

a picture. There's that Bible. They had to put

it in a baggie because it just kept pouring oil

out of it. Hello. This is not any kind of gimmick.

This is just a regular Bible from one of my disciples

who all of a sudden, he's an evangelist and now

his Bible is actually flowing with oil. So he

actually carries two Bibles, a dry one that he

can preach from and this one that he can annoy

people with. So what, can you give God a hand

for supernatural things, signs and wonders? Amen.

Well, we definitely not. Are not to follow signs

and wonders, but signs and wonders are supposed

to follow us. Can you say amen? If we believe

in Christ. So we're believing the Lord for great

things. And one of the great things that I'm

here for this weekend is to talk to you about

intercession. And we've titled it prophetic intercession.

Prophetic intercession. And there is a scripture

in Timothy. In Timothy, it reads this way. I

urge you then, first of all, that petitions,

prayer, intercession, and thanksgiving be made

for all people. This is 1 Timothy 2, verse 1

1 Timothy 2:1–4

through 4. For kings and those in authority,

that we may live peacefully and quiet lives in

all godliness and holiness. This is good. and

pleases God our Savior who wants all people to

be saved and to come to the knowledge of truth.

Come on. How many believe that God wants all

people to be saved? How many can thank God for

people that were reached today? Give the Lord

another hand for souls reached in the midst of

our worship. Amen. And prophetic intercession

is to take a stand for someone else. It's to

take a stand for someone else. or someone else,

take up someone else's burden in prayer, standing

in the gap for an individual, a church, a community,

a city, or a nation. I believe that God wants

to do this. I believe that God wants you and

I to learn how to take a stand for somebody else.

So many times we're concerned about ourselves

that we forget that we are the salt of the earth.

We forget that we are the light of this world

and that somehow our prayer should affect the

world. And though we are living in a day, There's

too much feedback here. Can we correct that?

Thank you. Though we're living in a day, is it

too high? Is it me? Hello. Okay, we got rid of

the bird. All right. Good. Though we're living

in an age of change, it's the norm of our day,

you and I are supposed to be stewards of change,

affect change, bring change. And prayer is one

of those ways. Intercessory prayer is one of

those ways. And I believe prophetic intercession

is divine intervention. I believe prophetic intercession

is divine intervention. You and I can intervene

in people's lives. You and I can actually come

between them and the thing that... them and the

very attack of the enemy, them and the sickness

that is plaguing their lives. You and I can bring

a change. In the last few months, my wife and

I have been praying and though we are human and

we grow sick in our bodies and we need prayer,

just like I told you about the testimony of my

wife, we've also watched healings and God used

our ministry, our school of ministry, the prophetic

school that we're taking around the world. We've

trained about 7 ,000 people so far, and now through

it, we've watched healings and miracles take

place. In Brazil, we watched a lady that had

cancer. She had been diagnosed with cancer in

both of her breasts. As we laid hands upon her

and prayed, laid hands on her head, she went

down under the anointing of the Lord, and all

of a sudden, her blouse began to fill up with

fluid. Tumors just seeped out of her body and

she was healed by the power of prayer. Amen.

Can you give the Lord a hand for that miracle?

Well, like that. We watched another lady who

was in our fourth stage of cancer be brought

to the church of my brother -in -law. I have

a brother -in -law, my sister's brother, who

we sent out some 22 years ago to pastor a church

and raise a church. And they brought this lady

with fourth degree cancer, fourth stage of cancer.

Really, the doctor said they couldn't do anything

else for her. She came to church her first time.

We prayed for her and the cancer. It was God.

God healed her. They could not find the cancer.

She didn't even know what was happening, but

we prayed in faith, and God caused that cancer

to be eliminated from her body. And we believe

that we can bring divine intervention. I believe

that it starts in the smallest form, but it can

increase, and your faith can increase to stand

in the gap and believe God to intervene in situations,

and God can use you. Would you look at your neighbor

and say, God wants to use you? In divine intervention.

That's right. I believe he wants you to stop

the enemy's attack and onslaught on families.

I believe you can stop the work of the enemy

on families through intercessory prayer and through

prayer that goes up before the Lord. When Timothy

spoke about intercession, that it was good for

us to make intercession, that word intercession

in the Greek. Antioxis, it means it's an intercession

prayer, falling in with it, meeting with an interviewer,

coming together to visit, to converse for any

other cause. It's to be able to make a petition

and a supplication for another. what intercession

is all about it's you standing in that place

but then the old testament has a word for intercession

and the old testament has a word and it's the

word in the hebrew intercession is known in your

old testament as the word paga paga and it's

a primitive comes from a primitive root to pray

to reach and even to run pray reach run and i

believe those are all works it's to encounter

to confront as one who makes war, to attack,

I like that warfare language, to reach as to

reach the mark, to entreat, to make intercession.

And I believe that... As we believe in intercessory

prayer and we talk about divine intervention,

I believe that you're going to have to arm up

because we're going to go to war with prophetic

intercession. And we're going to believe God

that God's going to use our prayers. And while

praise and worship is about creating an atmosphere

for the presence of the Lord to be made manifest

among us, intercession is more than just something

descending. It's us ascending. To the presence

of God. It's us going up into the presence of

God. Hearing what is going on in the presence

of God. Let God speak to us. And then we pray

knowing what the will of God is. Can you say

amen? And we're going to talk about this. So

I believe that God wants to do some great things.

And he wants to do it through you and I. In Psalm

24, let me pull this scripture. It's one of the

last scriptures in my slides, but if you can

pull that, I want to introduce that right now.

Psalm 24, verse 3 to 6. Listen to it. Who may

Psalms 24:3–6

ascend to the mountain of the Lord, and who may

stand in his holy place? The one who has clean

hands and a pure heart, who does not trust in

an idol or swear by a false god. They will receive

blessing from the Lord and vindication. from

their God, their Savior. Such is the generation,

such is the generation of those who seek him,

who seek your face, God of Jacob. Another translation

says, this is Jacob. That's quite a remarkable

statement. Those who seek your face. There was

something about Jacob. There was a persistent

about Jacob of old. And while we've been taught

he was a deceiver, I see him as a persister,

somebody who persistently was going after God,

was waiting for his blessing. How many remember

when he wrestled with God? He did not let go

until he got his blessing. Well... Prayer, intercessory

prayer is all about persistent. It's all about

insisting. It's all about going out. And we used

to have an intercessory ministry in our church

in New York City. We called it PUSH, the Ministry

of PUSH. Pray until something happens. PUSH.

Don't stop praying. You pray until something

happens. You keep praying. You keep believing

God. You keep going. You know, I'm reminded when

I was a little boy. I wasn't growing up in a

Christian home and I was full of mischief. And

growing up in New York City in downtown, close

to Delancey Street, where all the buildings were

and businesses were together, living in a building

close to a big furniture store that was only

two buildings away from my building, I couldn't

wait to have some time off to persecute the people

in the business, furniture business. As a little

boy, some of the things I would do, At the age

of six or seven. And without my parents. We were

with other kids in the community. And you leave

kids alone. And they'll find trouble. And so

we would ring the bell. Of this business. This

furniture store. And we'd ring it and run. Ever

had somebody ring your bell and run? Kids are

famous for that. We would ring the bell and run.

Ring the bell and run. And we'd watch. And when

the person went back already from the door and

sat down comfortable, we'd ring the bell again.

And they would run out again. And one day I got

caught. It was this huge man. He looked like

God to me. He was huge. I didn't know anything

about God, but this guy was big. And he pulled

me into the store and gave me the scolding of

my life. And then he actually met my parents.

And that was the end of my ring bell. Ringing

the bells in that store. But some of us in church

are like that. We ring the bell and run. And

don't wait for God to show up. I thank God for

my grandchildren. When I come home from a long

trip, I still have young grandchildren. My oldest

is going to be 18 this Monday. Another one is

going to be 16 this Monday, both born on my first

birthday. That's when I'm flying out on Sunday

night to celebrate Monday, our birthday together.

But all the others go up to six of age, and all

of them, I remember them, and they still do it.

The younger ones do it. They want to see Grandpa

after a long trip. They get to my door, and they

ring and ring and ring. And I could be off in

some other room and try to make my way, and they

don't stop ringing until that door opens. Well,

I believe that's intercessory prayer at its best.

I believe that you... You and I have got to ring

the bell. Somebody say, ring the bell. That's

right. You and I need to ring the bell and stay

there ringing that bell until something happens.

Amen? You need to insist and you need to persist

in seeing God do something on your behalf. God

wants to work miracles on your behalf. But I

believe that you and I need to also be able to

ascend to the hill of God. Because intercessory

prayer is about ascending into the presence of

the Lord. It's about getting God's attention.

It's about entering into that place of intimacy.

with God through prayer where you can stand and

you can with your whole heart into it and your

whole soul you're praying it's not that prayer

where people fall asleep when I first got saved

I fell asleep well I didn't fall asleep but I

was in a church and almost fell asleep because

on Monday nights when they prayed they turned

off the lights and dimmed the lights because

somehow we got it in us humans that we have to

turn the lights down to get spiritual And they

turned the lights down and people started praying

and because it was a church full of elderly people,

they couldn't help it but fell asleep. But here

I'm 17 years old, just got saved and I'm on fire.

I got filled with the Holy Ghost and I want some

action and people are snoring in the time of

prayer. And they're snoring, falling asleep.

Well, my whole task was to create a band of disciples

that would change that church. And so I created

a bunch of disciples, made sure they were filled

with the Holy Ghost. And we said, let's pray

in the Spirit. When we get to church, as soon

as they turn the lights off, you're going to

do this. They don't do it, but you're going to

do it. When the lights go off, you pray in the

Spirit. And pray loud. So they turned off the

lights on the first day and we were all there.

And now it was a crowd of young people that were

saved because God was moving in a powerful way.

And here we started praying in the spirit all

at once. Soon the lights went off, that was our

marker. And all of a sudden that elder ran back

to the switch to turn the light off. As soon

as he turned it on, we all looked like... None

of us were in because we knew it was a very conservative

church. They were going to throw us out. So as

soon as he turned the lights down again, we would

start praying in the Spirit again. And all night

long, that went on for a number of weeks until

one night, on a Monday night, the Spirit of God

broke through as we ascended into the presence

of God and there was no coming back. God showed

up in that church and revival struck that church.

It's never been the same again. Hallelujah. The

church has grown and planted churches and has

stepped away from the traditions of man that

were making the word of God of no effect and

have believed the word of God for the miraculous.

So I'm believing, God, that prophetic intercession

is about not just prayer. It's about, has a prophetic

element to it where you can actually hear the

voice of the Lord. The Lord can reveal things

that are going to happen and you can intervene.

Somebody say divine intervention. All right,

the next scripture is, so it's to take a stand

for someone else. That's what prophetic intercession

is, to take a stand. It's to take up someone

else's burden in prayer, standing in the gap

for an individual, a church, community, a city,

or a nation. The next slide, Luke chapter 22.

Luke 22 · chapter mention

Luke chapter 22, verse 31 through 32. Simon,

Luke 22:31–32

stay on your toes. And I'm using the message

translation to make this as simple as possible.

Simon, stay on your toes. Satan has tried his

best to separate all of you from me. This is

Jesus speaking to Simon, to Peter. Like chaff

from wheat, Simon, I've prayed for you in particular

that you not give in or give out. When you have

come through the time of testing, Turn to your

companions and give them a fresh start. Come

on. What an incredible word from the Lord Jesus

Christ to Simon. That was intercessory prayer.

I'm praying for you. I know what the enemy's

up to, but I'm praying for you. You're going

to go through the test. He didn't pray him out

of the test. He prayed him through the test.

Come on, somebody say when we come through. Some

people want you to pray them out of the test.

No, the test is going to make you grow. The test

is going to shape your character. It's the dark

places of your life that shape your character

if you allow God to work in your life. How many

have been shaped by some of the darkest moments

in your life? How many have gained some wisdom,

some authority? I love that word today coming

to that young missionary. She's not going to

make the same mistakes you made. There's something

about mistakes and something that things that

we go through that teach us wisdom so we can

pass. and on. Amen? And that's what the Lord

said. Give your friends a fresh start. When you

get through it, you're going to have something

to say to them. Can you say amen? So Jesus interceded.

And then in Colossians chapter 4, verses 12 through

Colossians 4:12–13

13, listen how Paul speaks about this prayer

warrior for us. He says, who is one of you, a

bondservant of Christ, greets you, always laboring

fervently. Somebody say fervently. That speaks

about passion. Always laboring fervently for

you in prayers that you may stand perfect and

complete in all the will of God. For I bear him

witness that he has a great zeal for you and

those who are in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis.

This man was a man who prayed not just for believers.

He prayed for cities and churches. He prayed

for people. He was zealous. He had a passion.

He was giving. He was fervently. He burned with

this passion to pray. And there's people that

God raises at the church. While all of us should

give ourselves to prayer and praying for governments

and praying for people and cities. And all of

us should experience intercession. There are

those that God anoints with a special anointing

to stand in prayer. This man was a man who constantly

went after prayer, praying to bring divine intervention

to people's lives. He prayed for the churches.

He prayed for people individually. And I believe

that God's raising that kind of people today.

I believe they're in this church. This is a praying

church. Can you give the Lord a hand for a praying

church? Hallelujah. Ezekiel chapter 22, listen

Ezekiel 22 · chapter mention

to this. Ezekiel 22 verse 26 through 29 seems

Ezekiel 22:26–29

to be speaking about our day almost. As it reads,

your priest violated my law and desecrated my

holy things. They can't tell the difference between

the sacred and the secular. They tell people

there's no difference between right and wrong.

Their contemptions of my holy Sabbaths profaning

me by trying to pull me down to their level.

Your politicians are like wolves prowling and

killing and rapturously taking whatever they

want. How many think that sounds a little familiar?

Your preachers cover up for the politicians.

By pretending to have received visions and special

revelations, they say, this is what God, the

master, says. When God hasn't said so much as

one word, extortion is rife, robbery is epidemic,

the poor and the needy are abused, outsiders

are kicked around at will. No access to justice.

No access to justice. How many think... That

God's raising a people who do have access to

justice. You and I have access by the blood of

Jesus into the throne of God. We have access

into the very presence of God. So there's no

access. Then it goes on, verse 30 to 31. I look

for someone to stand up for me against all of

this. To repair the defenses of the city. To

take a stand for me. And to stand in the gap.

To protect this land. So I wouldn't have to destroy

it. I couldn't find anyone. Not one. So I'll

empty out my raft on them. Burned them to a crisp

with my hot anger. Served them. With the consequences

of all they've done. Decree of God. The master.

What a tough word. He only looked. He was looking

for one. At least one. He could not find one.

I look for someone to stand up. Look at your

neighbor and say, stand up. I look for someone

to repair the defenses of the city. Somebody

say, dare to repair the defenses of a city. Oh,

I know you want politicians to do that, but it's

the church's job to do it. We have... somehow

given that to the politicians thinking that if

they just legislate the right laws, everything

will be all right. Well, the enemy is not a respecter

of the laws of man. Though laws can be legislated,

I believe that we need to stand in prayer for

righteous men to rule and for the legislation

of law. We cannot forget our place and our place

of intercessory prayer that keeps nation. I believe

that prayer can keep a city. Prayer can keep

a family. Prayer can keep our children. How many

believe that? How many believe that prayer can

keep our nation? I think that the absence of

prayer in our schools have brought on everything

that we have going on in our schools. But we

bring prayer back to its place and we're going

to watch God do something in our city. Well,

let's repair the defenses of the city to take

a stand for me and stand in the gap to protect

this land so I wouldn't have to destroy it. To

take a stand, to stand up. For me against all

this. And again he says to take a stand for me.

Somebody say take a stand for the Lord. Take

a stand for the Lord. Sometimes intercessory

prayer. We think that it's taking a stand for

somebody else. And though it is to stand in the

gap. When you stand in the gap. You're actually

taking a stand for the Lord. You're actually

standing where the Lord wants you to stand. Where

he would stand to make a difference. Can you

say amen? So and I believe God wants to do this.

Now we have a great example in Nehemiah. The

Bible talks about Nehemiah, and Nehemiah had

to stand up in his day. Let me move through this

quickly, because this weekend we're going to

spend time talking about intercessory prayer

and the different avenues. This is a vast subject,

but I'm here just as a forerunner of what's coming

later to this church. I believe that God is going

to take this church into deep realms of prayer,

and things are going to begin to happen just

like the Lord said. The glory of the Lord is

going to show up in this place. Miracles, signs,

and wonders will begin to happen. and all over

the place. Can you say amen? But Nehemiah's example,

as we go to the book of Nehemiah, we read, stand

up for me. That's what God said. And Nehemiah,

having heard of the destruction of Jerusalem,

when he got news that the walls were down and

the gates were burned, the spirit of intercession

fell on him. He began to pray, separated himself

with fasting and prayer. And then he took a stand.

He took a stand by going in front of the king

with the burden that he had. Now, in those days,

to go before a king sad, it meant a death penalty.

You would be put to death. It was not right to

serve in the courts of a king with a sad face.

You had to be joyful. But he took a stand. So

the king asked me, why does your face look so

sad? And when you are not ill, there's no illness.

There's nothing wrong. What's going on? This

can be nothing but sadness of heart. And then

I was very much afraid. But I said to the king,

may the king live forever. Why should my face

not look sad when the city where my ancestors

are buried lies in ruins and its gates have been

destroyed by fire? He took on such a burden that

he could not hide it. That's an intercessory

burden. It isn't with you just the moment you

pray. It's with you all day. You live with it.

You wake up with it. You go to bed at night with

it. Intercessory prayer is just different than

just... praying occasionally. This is something

that grabs you. It falls as a burden on your

life. You can't get rid of it. You've got to

continue to pray. The Holy Spirit comes on you

to make you an intercessor. How many have ever

had a burden come on you? You weren't even thinking

about it. All of a sudden God drops a burden

on you for somebody and you begin to pray for

them and you can't get it out of your mind and

you're thinking about calling them but you don't

call them but somehow you can't stop praying

for them until you call them and find out what's

going on and pray effectively. Well, that's the

intercessory prayer of the Holy Spirit training

you to hear Him. He's trying to speak to you

about how to pray and what to pray for and who

to pray for and at what time to pray. Are you

with me? So intercessory prayer is a burden that

comes on you so that you can intervene. You can

stand in the gap. And verse 10 says, when Sanballat,

this is after he goes out there, when Sanballat

and Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official

heard about this, they were very much disturbed

that someone had come to promote the welfare

of the Israelites. Somebody say someone. Someone

had come to promote. He took his stand. It was

him. It was this man, Nehemiah, took a stand

and said, I'm going to do it. I'm gonna make

this happen. I'm gonna take a stand for the city.

I'm gonna take a stand. You've got to be able

to do that. Listen, when Nehemiah, when we talk

about Nehemiah as this example, number one is

stand up for me. That's what it says. Number

one is stand up for me. Nehemiah chapter two,

verse 17 through 18. Then I said to them, you

see the trouble we are in? He's talking to the

people. Jerusalem lies in ruins and its gates

have been burned with fire. Come and let us rebuild

the wall of Jerusalem and we will no longer be

in disgrace. I also told them about the gracious

hand of my God on me and what the king had said

to me. And they replied, let us start rebuilding.

So they began this good work. Intercessory prayers

about you deciding to go to work. It's about

you deciding to take a stand. It's about you

deciding to influence other people to stand with

you and help rebuild the wall. And I think many

of us, and I was just so glad to see the spirit

of prayer in this church because I can tell that

you have been engaging in intercessory prayer.

And I believe you got here because of many intercessors

and those who have prayed this church along through

the years. Can you give those that have gone

before you a big hand? Those who have been at

the inception of this ministry. stood prayer,

tears. They called on God. Thank God for them.

They're to be honored and blessed. They stood

in the gap. When you weren't even here, they

were praying for your arrival. I watched people

today as we entered. I entered this place. People

early in here praying over the chairs and laying

hands on the chairs so that visitors would come

and experience. God in a special way. I believe

God is answering that prayer. Come on, give the

Lord another hand. He is answering the prayers

that are going on in this church. So you're to

take a stand. You're to stand up for it. And

you're to influence other people. Take the stand

so strong that other people, you can convince

other people to stand with you and start rebuilding.

Because it's all about repairing up. The defense.

Number two is Nehemiah's example was to repair

the defenses. That's what God said. Someone to

repair the defenses. I'm looking for somebody

that would repair the defenses of this city.

That's what we read. Ezekiel 13 verse 5. You

Ezekiel 13:5

have not gone up into the gates. Neither made

up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand

in the battle in the day of the Lord. You did

not. You have not gone up. You haven't. Build

a hedge. You have not gone up. To build a hedge.

To go up into the gaps. Into the gaps. That's

the ministry of intercession. At it's best. It's

when you can find your place. To stand. Those

gaps. Where people are not even talking about

it. Some people are looking at the end result.

Not looking at the consequence. Or what caused

that. The things that caused those results. And

somebody's got to go into those gaps. Intercessors

know how to make their way right there and pray

with the will of God, with divine revelation

about the cause of these things that are happening

in our nation. The ministry of intercession will

draw your enemy's attention. So when you enter

the ministry of intercession, just like Nehemiah,

it drew the attention of his enemies. If you're

going to be part of intercessory ministry, some

of you are already under attack. Get ready for

more attack. That's a great word, pastor. Why

did you bring him? In the middle of warfare,

in the middle of attack, the enemy draws. Listen,

why would the enemy care to mess with a church

that's not being effective? But the moment the

church steps into a place where she becomes effective,

all hell will break loose against you. The moment

you family decides, and all of you have experiences,

the moment you decide to pray more, read your

Bible more, the moment you decide to give more,

the moment you decide to get more committed,

all hell breaks loose. Anybody been there? It's

just me. Come on. Somehow, the word gets out

in hell, and every demon is released against

you. But that's the time when God wants you to

be able to understand that this is just part

of the program. Come. Hello? Are you with me?

Nehemiah 4, 7. But when Zimbala, Tobias, the

Arabs, the Ammonites, and the people of Ashton

heard the repairs of Jerusalem's wall had gone

ahead and that gaps were being closed, they were

very angry. Come on. We should intercede just

to make the devil mad. Just to make him angry.

I'm going to stand in the gap just to make you

angry. That's my first agenda. I want to make

you angry, devil. I want you to know there's

somebody ready to fight against you. Ready to

take a stand. And then letter B, the ministry

of intercession will... your enemies will attempt

to distract you. Not only will they attract your

enemies, but your enemies, when they come, they

will attempt to distract you. Distract you. I

heard the story of a little champion girl who

had done something wrong and when she was corrected,

she told somebody, I was distracted and sin got

a hold of me. I think she's five years old. She's

in this house. Little Jesse. I was distracted.

I just heard that tonight. And sin got a hold

of me. How many of you know that's true? Every

time we get distracted, she's a preacher already.

Well, Nehemiah knew something that you can't

allow the enemy to distract you. Because if the

enemy can distract you, he'll divert you. And

if he can divert you, he'll deceive you. And

if he deceives you, he'll disgrace you. And if

he can disgrace you, he'll attempt to destroy

you. Don't be distracted. Look at somebody and

say, don't be distracted. So Nehemiah 6, verse

Nehemiah 6:1–3

1 through 3, when the word came out to Zimbala,

Tobias, Geshem, and the Arab, and the rest of

our enemies, that I had rebuilt the wall and

not a gap was left in it. Though up to that time

I had not set the doors in the gates, Samballot

and Geshem sent me this message. Come and let

us meet together in one of the villages on the

plain of Ono. But they were scheming to harm

me. So I sent messengers to them with this reply.

I'm carrying on a great project. Or a great work.

I cannot go down. Why should the work stop. While

I leave it to go down to you. Look at your neighbor

and say. We're called to a great work. It's a

great project. Amen. God's got an agenda. He

wants us to get this thing done. He wants us

to stand in the gap, and you've got no time to

get distracted. You need to tell the enemy, I

don't have time for this distraction. I am going

to continue. I know you're trying to stop me

from what God's called me to do, but I'm going

to pray even more. I'm going to pray harder.

I'm going to get up early. I'm going to go to

bed later. I'm going to do whatever I have to

do, but I'm going to pray on. Can you say amen?

Somebody say push. Pray until something happens.

Amen. Don't stop praying. And the ministry of

intercession, listen, this point C, your enemies

will realize you're not alone. When you keep

on pushing, when you keep on doing the work,

Nehemiah 6 .16 says this, when all our enemies

heard about this, all the surrounding nations

were afraid and lost their self -confidence because

they realized that this work had been done with

the help of God. Come on. Are you ready to see

God come to your aid? When you stand in the gap,

that's all God's waiting for. I heard a prophetic

word. The eyes of the Lord are going to and fro.

They're looking for somebody whose heart is totally

committed with Him to show Himself strong on

their behalf. Come on, somebody. Look at your

neighbor and say, God wants to show off on your

behalf. Things that cannot be done will be done.

be done. Things that could not happen will happen.

Things that could not be healed. Infirmity that

could not leave will be gone in the name of the

Lord. Intercessors step into a place of divine

intervention and cause the miraculous to take

place in the house of God. I believe that you

and I have got to be able to repair those places.

Repair the ruins. Repair those things that will

help our city get restored. Number three. Nehemiah's

example, to stand in the gap to protect. In Nehemiah

chapter four, verse 13 through 14, says, therefore

I stationed some of the people behind the lowest

points of the wall at the exposed places, posting

them by families with their swords, spears, and

bows. Verse 14, after I looked things over, I

stood up and said to the nobles, The officials

and the rest of the people, don't be afraid of

them. Remember the Lord who is great and awesome.

And fight for your families. Somebody say fight

for your families. Your sons. Your daughters.

Your wives. And your homes. How many think it's

worth fighting for? How many think your wife

is worth fighting for? Somebody say, um. Fight

for your wife. Come on. Women, look at your husband

and say, fight for me, honey. That's right. There's

got to be men in this house that will fight.

Not fight with them, but fight for them. Amen?

We've got to fight all mixed up. We're fighting

with one another. We're fighting and contending

even home against home and family against family

when our fight is not against flesh and blood,

but against principalities and powers of the

air. When you feel yourself cornered, Fight the

devil. Come on, somebody rise up and fight the

enemies of this house. Fight those that are saying

that this house is not going to go to its future.

Fight that spirit of lying. Fight that spirit

that comes to try to distract and discourage

the people of the house of the Lord. Somebody

say fight. Come on, intercessory ministry and

divine intervention does not happen without a

fight. You're going to have to fight and travail.

You're going to have to travail in prayer. You're

going to have to call out God. You're going to

have to push the gates of hell back. You're going

to have to say to the devil, I know what you're

scheming, but it's not going to happen. You can't

have my son. You can't have my daughter. You

will not have my marriage. You've got to fight

for your family. Some children and young people

in this place need to begin to fight for their

parents. Parents that are not saved and begin

to say, I'm now saved. Washed by the blood of

the Lamb. I have access into the throne of heaven.

I have authority to push back the gates of hell.

I have a promise from God. Believe in me and

you and your house shall be saved. I'm going

to pray for my parents. I'm going to see them

saved. I'm going to push until something happens.

I'm going to pray. Can you say amen? Hallelujah.

I believe that God wants to do some spectacular,

miraculous things as we dare to believe God.

Well, that's all I have time for tonight. But

you and I need to fight. We're gonna believe

God because there are people that are taking

care of the children of your families. And believe

God that the spirit of intercession is gonna

come upon this church and many... will stand

up, will be repairs of the city, of the defenses

of the city, and will begin to close every gap

by standing in the gap. Well, investigate. And

what are the very weaknesses of this city? What's

going on in this city? What are the major sins

of this city? What are the things that are plaguing

the young people of this house or of this city?

How do you stand in the gap for a city if you

don't know what's going on? How do you stand

in the gap for a nation if you don't know what's

going on? How do you stand in the gap for your

family, your children, if you're not talking

with your children? Finding out where are the

low parts of the wall that need to be built.

Where are those open gaps that have been left

open? Maybe it was your own disobedience that

opened some of those gaps up. Maybe it was your

kids that opened the gap. But we have the authority

to close them. We have the authority to stand

in them. And until God does something, we need

to stand and begin to pray. And we need to intercede

in a way that the enemy knows that we're serious,

that we're ready, that we're going to continue

to ring the bell until God shows up with all

his glory and his majesty and fights for us.

Are you with me? Are you ready to enter into

a whole new realm of intercession? Maybe you're

there already and this time this weekend is just

to strengthen your hands and strengthen you to

pray and to draw near to God and for you to understand

that prayer works. I can't tell you enough about

divine intervention. When I was going off to

college, Bible college, I was selling my properties

in Puerto Rico so I could pay my way through

school and try to at least get my footing in

Portland, Oregon when I was coming to Portland

Bible College. My wife was young. We were both

young and married. The person who was buying

my house, together with a lawyer who was doing

the transactions of the sale, tried to scheme.

He wanted to take the money of the sale and wanted

to rob us, basically. And when I got word of

it through another lawyer who saw it, he told

me about the relationship of that buyer with

that lawyer and how they were scheming. I really

got very irate. And I was only saved about two

years. Kind of a new saved guy. Saved out of

the streets. And I remember calling for a meeting

in my house. I was on my way to Bible college,

but here's the enemy trying to distract me. right

before I go off. And my mom saw me. She was a

woman who had just come to the Lord also. First

one saved my family after myself. She began to

pray for me because she saw that my life had

been transformed and changed and all of a sudden

she's seeing me very upset. She hadn't seen me

like this. So she begins to pray and I call for

a meeting of all my old friends. Kind of my...

Little mafia guys. Called them to my house to

see how we would get even. My dear wife started

praying and interceding so that God would intervene

some way. Giselle, a young bride, was crying

out to God. She was raised in a godly family.

I wasn't raised that way. So she knew a lot more

and had a lot more patience and knew that God

would come to work. Life was young of the Lord

and I thought, well, vengeance is mine. You know.

And I was scheming that night to do something.

And guess who showed up at my house? She didn't

live close by me. She traveled all the way to

my house because my wife began to pray. The Lord

spoke to my mother. She made her way. There were

no cell phones, no texts. There was no way my

mom could know anything about this. But she showed

up, a little woman, but just a little woman.

You know, Mary was probably a little lady compared

to Jesus. And I'm still little, but still wanting

to grow. So if any of you have an anointing to

make things grow, pray for me. But my mom showed

up. full of the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

Called, stepped into my meeting. She didn't ask

for permission. She just said, Danny, come over

here. I want to talk to you. And I just knew

when I saw her eyes full of tears, I knew she

had something in her heart to give me. I didn't

expect her to give me the word of the Lord. She

intervened that day with a word. She said, I've

been praying for you. And God sent me to give

you this word. He told me you're about to do

something. That will destroy your ministry. Before

it even starts. If you do what you're going to

do tonight. What you're planning. You will never

return back to this island. To preach the gospel.

The doors will be closed. And you will have entrance

into this island. She prayed with me. And she

broke my spirit. Broke the anger in me. Brought

me back to my senses in God. The Holy Spirit

came over me. I walked out of that room. To that

crowd of ungodly men. And said to them, please

forgive me. I've done wrong by you and by the

Lord. I asked their forgiveness. And they left

not fulfilling anything that we had talked about.

And we called off everything. And I went to court

and went through the sale. And God reversed the

whole thing. And God blessed us just like he

said he would. And he prevented me, divine intervention.

stepped into my life that day through my mother.

And I'll never forget that. It's today I'm a

preacher to the nations, not only to my island

of Puerto Rico, but to the nations of the world

because she dared to intervene. She dared to

hear what God wanted to do. And in prayer, she

responded and stood in the gap. I wonder how

many things will be intervened by this church

as you step in the gap and begin to pray. How

many attempts of the enemy will just crumble

to nothing how many works of Satan will be destroyed

through the faithful prayer how many people will

be healed in this church how many miracles will

begin to take place in the next few weeks and

months in this church as you begin to take a

whole different stand of prayer are you ready

for the challenge? are you ready for the fight?

stand with me tonight Lord, I thank you. I thank

you that you're causing people not just to pray,

but to enter into a realm of prophetic intercession.

A time where they can hear what you want them

to pray about, what you want them to do, and

they can act on that word and bring a performance

to intervene in every scheme of Satan. Cause,

Lord, cause people's lives to be spared. Cause

people to... Come out of their sick beds and

out of their death beds. Cause families to walk

away from divorce court and be healed and restored.

Oh God, I pray. Hand of the Lord would save young

people, Lord, from suicide through this church.

From a spirit that lurks to try to destroy them

before they even started. In the name of Jesus,

I pray, oh God, that you put a burden on those

who pray in the house. Cause them to understand

how to ascend into your presence. How to have

clean hands and a pure heart. To be able to ascend

into your hill, into your very presence. Oh,

God, to seek you with this endeavor. In Jesus'

name, and everyone said, amen. God bless you.

Hallelujah. Praise you, Lord. If we could have

the ushers come. Bob, if we could just maybe

just set the buckets on the stage of those that

want to just sow in tonight. Tomorrow morning

we'll receive an offering proper for Danny as

well. But if you want to sow in tonight to his

ministry, we're going to take a freewill offering

for him. You know, we'll just set some up on

the stage. I want you just to be able to come

around as the worship team just kind of worships,

I guess. And plays a little bit. I believe tonight

there was an impartation of something on several

levels. Number one, we heard the word of the

Lord in regard to miracles, healings, the miraculous.

I believe there was an impartation tonight. But

two, I believe there was a stirring that took

place to remind, especially some of us that have

been... laboring for a long time to remind us

that some of the things that have happened through

the years it isn't coincidence and just to bring

to our mind that God actually has been answering

prayers and that the fight that some of the things

that we've encountered is not by coincidence

and not to grow weary in doing well for others

that heard tonight recognizing that prayer And

standing in the gap for the house of the Lord,

for the people of God, for families, for the

lost, for the miraculous is absolutely imperative.

And to anchor into that and say, this is what

God is looking for. He's asking me to sign up,

to begin to pray according to the Spirit, to

begin to receive a godly burden. Maybe it's for

children. Maybe it's for the lost. Maybe it's

for the miraculous. Maybe it's the gamut of how

the Holy Spirit will just begin to bring thoughts.

God is bringing a touch and an impartation. So

tonight, as we dismiss, just bring something

before the Lord. We're just going to add this

to just Danny's love offering at the end of the

weekend. God bless you. Receive that tonight

in the name of Jesus. God bless you as you go.

We'll see you in the morning. Doors open, I believe,

around 9 .30. We'll start at 10 o 'clock. It's

going to be a great time tomorrow. 10 to about

12 .30. Thank you. interested in hearing other

podcasts or contacting Life Bible Church, go

to www .lifebiblechurch .org or call us at 541

-995 -8282.